[CentOS] change /etc/security/limits.conf need reboot or not?

Wed Mar 20 22:38:40 UTC 2013
Banyan He <banyan at rootong.com>

I rmeember you can just exist the shell and log on again to apply the 
changes. Not really a reboot.

You can check it with ulimit -a for the list items of the changes.

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Banyan He
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On 3/21/2013 2:52 AM, mcclnx mcc wrote:
> We have CEntos 5.5 on DELL server.  Due to more and more databases run on same server sometime processes number read max and cause 'resource temporary unavailable".
>
> I plan to change /etc/security/limits.conf value:
>
> oracle          soft    nproc          2047 ==> 4096
>
> Do i need reboot to make it effect?
>
> How to test change is effect?
>
> Thanks.
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